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  • Great feedback! CWPA 2019 report

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    Crow team members Hadi Banat and Bradley Dilger traveled to Baltimore, MD for CWPA 2019, sharing the Crow system in an interactive workshop.

  • Dr. Shelley Staples takes Crow to Brazil

    Instead of silence, language fills the air. Words upon words topple out of people’s mouths in an attempt to reach out. A way to overcome distance, slowly bridging the gap between culture and identity to grow and deepen understanding. It’s this idea that fuels the Regional English Language Office (RELO) programs, funded by the US…

  • Dr. Ge Lan and Hailey Jie Yang Present at the 2026 Crow Symposium

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    This is the first post highlighting information from our Crow Symposium. For the second post, please navigate here! On January 31, the annual 2026 Crow Symposium showcased two excellent ongoing research projects from Crowbirds Dr. Hadi Banat and the team of Dr. Ge Lan and Hailey Jie Yang. Alongside them, nine other Crowbirds roosted together…

  • Crow Corpus and MACAWS Update

    We’ve updated the Crow corpus, expanding it to texts. 18,000. Our sister corpus MACAWS has expanded, too.

  • Crow at AACL 2024

    Earlier this fall, six Crow members made their way to Eugene, Oregon to attend the 16th International American Association for Corpus Linguistics Conference (AACL). This biennial conference focuses on corpus based language teaching, corpus analysis, and corpus related tools and methods. This year, AACL took place on September 13-15 and was hosted by the Linguistics…

  • Crow Spotlight: The Results of Resolve and Research

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    An Introduction to Dr. Hadi Banat Exciting things are happening for Crow as one of our long-time researchers, Dr. Hadi Banat, is making headway in four different research projects: designing a self-placement tool for general writing courses, adapting the literacy narrative genre to a transculturation curriculum, studying the effects of writing center work on students’…

  • Arizona Internal Grants Update: Fall 2023

    By Alec Horner and Sarah Buwick Exciting things are happening with the Crow team at the University of Arizona this fall! Dr. Shelley Staples is supervising two major projects that have recently received internal funding: the Crow Corpus Pedagogy Workshop and MACAWS. The Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) grant was awarded to the Arizona team for Dr.…

  • Spring 2023 Conference Roundup

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    As the Spring 2023 semester wraps up, the Crow team is excited to share the research we have presented at conferences this semester. WRAB 2023 Dr. Hadi Banat presented at the Writing Across Borders 2023 conference in Trondheim, Norway in February. He presented his research, “Tutoring, Race, and Confidence in Writing,” which is a mixed-methods…

  • Crow at AAAL and TESOL 2023

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    Crow and MACAWS researchers will present three sessions AAAL and TESOL in Portland, Oregon. Join us!

  • Crow Spotlight: Nina Conrad

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    Congratulations to Crow researcher Nina Conrad on her recent graduation from the University of Arizona with a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT). Nina defended her dissertation, titled “How Students Seek and Use Writing Support: Exploring the Spectrum of Literacy Brokering Practices in Higher Education,” on Oct. 28, 2022, and officially received her…